Instead of another tired plea for a US gun ban Bob Costas...

Post subject: Re: Instead of another tired plea for a US gun ban Bob Costas...

Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 8:20 pm

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Skitch Patterson wrote:

Alex wrote:

Skitch Patterson wrote:

Green Habit wrote:

I'd like to know if the tragic but still rare Sean Taylor story caused a spike in gun ownership by NFL players.

I think it probably did, and probably across all the professional sports, especially those made up of. um. a certain backgroundfrom Detroit. A lot of the guys that play professionally in both the NBA and NFL grew up in less than desirable areasDetroit, and it stands to reason that a lot of their friends, hangers on, and other folks they know are of somewhat ill reputefrom Detroit. Now obviously that didn't play a role in the Taylor case (although it was speculated initially that he knew his killerspeople from Detroit), but I think it opened a lot of their eyes. Especially with the Paul PierceDetroit thing around that time as well. Fact is, these are multi millionaires who grew up in (in a lot of cases) rough areasDetroit, that hang out with a lot of people that are probably pretty jealousfrom Detroit.

Post subject: Re: Instead of another tired plea for a US gun ban Bob Costas...

Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2012 8:37 pm

Red Mosquito, my libido

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Alex wrote:

Skitch Patterson wrote:

Alex wrote:

Skitch Patterson wrote:

Green Habit wrote:

I'd like to know if the tragic but still rare Sean Taylor story caused a spike in gun ownership by NFL players.

I think it probably did, and probably across all the professional sports, especially those made up of. um. a certain backgroundfrom Detroit. A lot of the guys that play professionally in both the NBA and NFL grew up in less than desirable areasDetroit, and it stands to reason that a lot of their friends, hangers on, and other folks they know are of somewhat ill reputefrom Detroit. Now obviously that didn't play a role in the Taylor case (although it was speculated initially that he knew his killerspeople from Detroit), but I think it opened a lot of their eyes. Especially with the Paul PierceDetroit thing around that time as well. Fact is, these are multi millionaires who grew up in (in a lot of cases) rough areasDetroit, that hang out with a lot of people that are probably pretty jealousfrom Detroit.

We never address the root problem which is culture that leads to domestic violence.

Brother, we live in a world where Chris Brown beats Rihanna (a woman who could land any man in world) so bad she had to go to the hospital and two years later she's banging him again. Our culture has gone way past leading to domestic violence, we basically reward it.

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